Guys! Look how many things I crossed off my list!!! left to do: design stationery. print everything. cut everything out. finish putting the box together. make a keynote presentation. write a proposal/abstract. practice my presentation. glue everything to presentation boards. sleep. present Positive Feedback to a bunch of graphic design critics, including two of my professors, a few grad students, and the heads of Graphic Design and GD graduate studies. whew
Finally finished adding content to the Positive Feedback website, and the iPhone App. (these are illustrator files, I don’t actually need a live or working anything for the degree project. these are prototypes) Now all I have left to do is design stationery, write my proposal, make a presentation, print out everything, cut it all out, put it together, and then organize it so it looks super professional.
T minus 26 hours till go time.
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Then this one would be Chapter four: Day 89, The Final Stretch. We’re in for the long haul folks! I’ve got no less than five boxes of Epson and Red River paper on my desk, in varying weights and sizes (premium, ultra premium, regular, double sided, Letter 8.5×11, Tabloid 11×17, SuperB 13×19, A3 etc). The floor is littered with trimmings, the trash bin is overstuffed with paper scraps, I’ve replaced three of my six ink cartridges in the last 4 hours, with an extra set on standby, I’ve spent about $130 so far in the last 2 days between new ink, paper, and plotting (large format printer), and my workspace is a total mess!
Take note: two different olfa knives, and a gripster x-acto knife. Two bone folders, one for scoring and one for folding, three rulers under the monitor, the aforementioned double sided tape I bought a few days ago, that white thing behind it is PVA glue (which I used to make my first ever perfect-bound book today, thanks to the help of Steph, and that’s under clamps at the end of my desk under all the stacks of paper boxes.) and scissors. I need all of these why? That’s black tea in that mug by the way. I already had coffee five hours ago… and in the corner, a snippet of the checklist I showed you guys yesterday. My friend Amanda states adamantly that this is not a messy workspace, but I have to say, our 7th floor Graphic Design studio is usually pretty neat, but everyone’s desks are cluttered slobs this week, mine included. (oh ps for those of you who care, I’m listening to Tritonal and Above & Beyond on the iTunes screen over there) and that’s a letter from Gaby woo! (taped behind my laptop)
Gonna try to finish designing everything today so I can print tomorrow and practice my presentation and arrange all the work on big boards. I have to admit I’ll kind of miss this workspace and all my studio mates when it’s all over.
— correction, this is the 90th day of my 8th semester at RISD, not the 89th
It really is a beautiful thing to get something finished. Here’s the Positive Feedback pocket Events Calendar. (which is really for your desk, not your pocket, actually). And I still have to get a pair of wire cutters and get rid of the extra loop.
Well, no. I know What I did all weekend. I also know what I wish I had done last weekend (many of my friends were in LA at Above & Beyond’s Group Therapy LA Tour, and a few others were in New York at Electric Daisy Carnival with Armin van Buuren and Markus Schulz and Tritonal etc etc trance music yeah. I also missed out on Bay-To-Breakers run in SF and a solar eclipse on the West Coast). I, on the other hand, was on the 7th floor of the Design Center with all of my fellow seniors working from 7am to 3am, on average (I don’t do all-nighters like some of them do, but it gets pretty close). Studio Marathon for Positive Feedback (with a five and a half hour “break” to begin researching, begin writing, and then finish an entire essay… the day before it was due gooooood).
Yesterday I drank a large iced coffee and four large iced teas, (I usually have a rule: only one small caffeinated drink per day) and around 2 in the morning we had to call public safety because the whole floor smelled like burning plastic… we think it was the light table? When I got back here this morning at 8:30 some kids were still up from last night.
Degree Project Critique set for 2pm on Thursday May 24 (my sister’s 18th birthday!) in room 212 of the Design Center. If you do go to RISD, feel free to come to the crit. Otherwise, I will post photographs of finished work at some point this summer.
HERE: is some of what I did this weekend.
stream of consciousness 